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IN MEMORIAM
DAVID LYNCH
1946-2025
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UPCOMING EVENTS
7.40PM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20TH​
THELMA
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Mission Impossible on mobility scooters, the fabulous 93 year old June Squibb takes on her FIRST EVER lead role in the history of her remarkable 70 year career (and is about to have her second ever lead role in the first film directed by Scarlett Johansson). A remarkable treasure of the movie industry, Squibb plays the equally remarkable Thelma, a grandmother who falls foul of a con artist and loses $10,000 dollars. Not willing to stand idly by, she instead plans to take action by sitting quite comfortably on a mobility scooter and hurtling towards danger to try and recover the money.
A fantastically funny and remarkably poignant film, former Oscar nominee Squibb stars alongside Fred Hechinger (Eighth Grade, The White Lotus, Gladiator II, Nickel Boys), Clark Gragg (The Avengers), Parker Posey (Best In Show, Beau Is Afraid), Malcolm McDowell (If...., A Clockwork Orange) and the recently departed legendary Richard Roundtree (best remembered for his role as Shaft in the era defining 70s Blaxploitation film of the same name), in his final role.
A beautiful tribute to the director's own grandmother, this nonagenarian action movie is a one of kind gem that earns every point of its 98% Rotten Tomatoes score. Infectiously funny, surprisingly affecting and quite unlike anything you have ever seen before.
7PM SATURDAY MARCH 1ST​
A DAVID LYNCH TRIBUTE
DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE
(1984)
-4K REMASTER
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With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, this previously scheduled screening now becomes an unintended tribute to one of the great directors of all time. Despite being Lynch's second most successful film at the box office (his highest earner was The Elephant Man) 1984's Dune was seen as a box office bomb and remains (easily) one of Lynch's most underappreciated works and is still (incredibly given his back catalogue) one of his most misunderstood.
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It's true to say Dune is the David Lynch movie that most exceeds the master filmmaker's own grasp, but perhaps for this very reason it may well be his most revealing, and one of the most 'Lynchian' of all his works. Based on the previously thought 'unfilmable' novel by Frank Herbert that modern cinema goers now know so well thanks to the Denis Villeneuve, Timothée Chalamet led productions of recent years, Lynch's version is an altogether different animal from the book and other adaptations.
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Built for the big screen Dune is a masterpiece of epic and eccentric gothic production design, a true feast for the eyes, with even the less well aged special effects oozing (sometimes literally) charm. It also features an out of this world all-star cast that ranges from Twin Peaks cast members like Kyle MacLachlan, Everett McGill, and Jack Nance, as well as Blue Velvet cast like Dean Stockwell and Brad Dourif mixed in with a stunning array of talent that includes Bergman regular Max Von Sydow, Blade Runner's Sean Young, and Das Boot's Jürgen Prochnow. Hell, even Sting turns up (in some outrageously small and weird leather underpants) all offering some of the most wonderfully memorable and 'Lynchian' line readings in cinema history.
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Despite the film's initial reception, in 2025, Dune's concoction of sights and sounds, all capped with an epic soundtrack from Brian Eno and Toto, remains an undeniably mesmerising experience that shows one of cinema's true iconoclasts attempting and perhaps 'failing' to redefine the blockbuster Sci Fi movie. Oh but what beauty there is in the failing, Dune is a swirling dream of a movie that thrills, confounds, entertains and catches the viewer repeatedly off-guard. We urge you to see or re-visit this fascinating, beguiling ride that we think contains a true epic masterpiece lurking just below the surface like a giant Sandworm in the deserts of Arrakis. Come celebrate this legend of cinema in all his eccentricity let loose with $40 million dollars ($121 million in today's money) with this special 4K restoration screening on Saturday March 1st.

7.30PM WEDNESDAY MARCH 5TH
PARIS MEMORIES
+ OPTIONAL POST FILM DISCUSSION GROUP
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Acclaimed director Alice Wincour (Disorder / Proxima) brings us this tale of remarkable power about Mia (Virginie Efira) a 40 something Parisian who after being caught up in a horrific gunman attack in a bistro attempts to piece back together her life and come to terms with the extreme shock of the event. Desperate to make sense of it all and for some semblance of normality, Mia finds herself returning to the scene of the incident and forming bonds with fellow survivors in order to work through the mental puzzle of recovery.
A devastatingly tender portrait of trauma the film is a remarkable cinematic study of memory and the colliding of the emotional and analytical mind in the most difficult of circumstances. Featuring an astonishingly measured central performance from the brilliant Virginie Efira (Elle / Benedetta) who unearths hope, humanity and courage against the backdrop of a vividly captured city of light. This is a moving and exceptionally crafted film from director Alice Winocour, who is fast becoming one of cinema's key voices.
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*This screening will be followed by an optional and informal post film discussion group.*

7.10PM FRIDAY MARCH 14TH
GREENWICH VILLAGE DOUBLE BILL
THE COEN BROTHERS'S
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
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ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TIME
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Now that Timothée Chalamet has done us all the service of bringing Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village back into the cultural conversation we finally have an excuse to screen the greatest piece of film about said 1960s folk cultural hotbed in the shape of one of the finest Coen Brothers films (Fargo, Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, True Grit etc) the glorious Inside Llewyn Davis starring Oscar Isaac & Carey Mulligan.
Not only that but the evening will continue with the screening of a very special companion piece film 'Another Day, Another Time' celebrating the folk music explosion in early 60s New York featuring a who's who of musicians (Joan Baez, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Patti Smith, Gillian Welch, Jack White & more) all captured giving sublime stage performances of music from the era, on a truly glorious evening at New York Town Hall.
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Considered one of the finest Coen Brothers films and regularly named amongst the top entries in 'best films of the 21st century' lists, Inside Llewyn Davis is an undoubted masterpiece of melancholic comedy that follows 'a complete unknown' folk singer called Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), struggling to keep his personal life in order (chiefly his relationship with married folk singer Jean - Carrie Mulligan, and his friend's ginger cat) whilst also attempting to become a success on the early 60s folk scene. Exceptionally witty, beautifully photographed, with an exceptional supporting cast this is the Coen Brothers at the absolute peak of their powers.
The accompanying concert film is an equally remarkable document of some of the most uplifting and affectingly brilliant folk music performances ever recorded and is a truly joyous concert film produced by the genius behind so many Coen Bros film soundtracks, the fifteen time Grammy Award winner T. Bone Burnett.
6.10PM SUNDAY MARCH 23RD​
A DAVID LYNCH TRIBUTE
DAVID LYNCH'S
INLAND
EMPIRE
-4K REMASTER
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With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, we screen the final feature film of his illustrious career in the shape of this special 4K remaster presentation of the infamous Inland Empire. The final 'ultimate' puzzle of a career made out of cinematic puzzles, this 2006 experimental psychological thriller represents the natural progression and final landing point of the much discussed Lynchian feature film style. Inland Empire is the direct successor to the likes of Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway and perhaps most crucially Mulholland Drive.
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The initially perplexing Mulholland Drive is now in hindsight, often hailed as one of, if not the, greatest film of the 2000s, this next and final work however, is a film that audiences are only just beginning to catch up to. A crucial artefact of the early digital filmmaking era, Lynch is as innovative as ever in this wild tale of a Hollywood actress (a mighty performance by Laura Dern) who begins to take on the personality traits of a character she is playing in a supposedly cursed film production. ​​Largely financed by Lynch personally, started without a finished screenplay and developed (as was Lynch's preference) on a scene by scene basis, the film is famously shot by Lynch himself entirely on a handheld Sony camcorder. If Lynch was known for his pre-occupation with the relationship between cinema and dreams then Inland Empire is the closest we will ever come to having a live feed from inside David Lynch's head on the screen.
The final and most undiluted statement by one of cinemas great heroes, Inland Empire is a full circle moment and easily his most personal film since 1977's Eraserhead and an extraordinary document of Lynch's boundless imagination, in what is perhaps his most boundary pushing and influential work. Once again joining with regular collaborators like Dern (Blue Velvet / Wild At Heart) Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive), Harry Dean Stanton (Wild At Heart) & Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks) David also brings in the likes of Jeremy Irons and Julia Ormond plus a collection of star cameos. Uncompromising and masterful, Inland Empire is a deep, seductive, troubling and confrontational whirlwind of a film that will confound and beguile you throughout.

7.50PM FRIDAY MARCH 28TH​
IT IS STILL 1985 MOVIE CLUB
RETURN
TO OZ
40TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
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An event we are really holding space with and feeling power in....celebrating 17 years of Brighton's favourite 80s party and the city's longest running weekly club night (Every Saturday at Green Door Store) 'It Is Still 1985' is marking both their own longevity and the fact that the year they are named after (1985) is now exactly 40 years ago by teaming up with us at White Wall Cinema to create a new movie club for 2025 that screens a selection of movies celebrating their 40th anniversary on a limited number of select dates across this year. We begin with this wonderfully creepy kids classic that still lives rent free in the minds of all who saw it in their youth. Forget Ariana Grande, this is the ONLY truly WICKED adaptation of L. Frank Baum's Oz novels.
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The only directorial effort of legendary sound designer and editor Walter Murch (responsible for the likes of THX-1138, The Godfather 1, 2 & 3, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Ghost, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain, as well as winning Oscars for his work on Apocalypse Now and The English Patient) it is a decidedly darker and more fascinating ride into Oz than one might expect from a Disney movie, but then, it was the 80s...
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When the mother (Piper Laurie of Twin Peaks fame) of the young Dorothy Gale (played by the one and only Fairuza Balk from The Craft) fears her daughter is too disturbed by her memories/visions of the imaginary world of Oz, she takes her for psychological experimentation. Dorothy manages to escape to Oz, only find a vain witch and evil king have turned the yellow brick road to rubble, and left the Emerald City a pile of ruins. Determined to save the day she, with the help of some new friends like Billina, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumkinhead and The Gump, heads off to rescue her old friends the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion.
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Given the awesome reputation of the original Wizard Of Oz film, spin-off adaptations were inevitable, but from The Wiz to Wicked no other Oz movie will ever quite achieve the cult status of this bizarre, brilliant and often dazzling creation that all adds up to the most wonderfully unexpected sequel to the 1939 MGM classic. Ingenious production design and irresistible nightmarish special effects combine to create a fantastic voyage that is burned into the psyche of every 80s kid and still stands today as a joyously creative and stylish take on the world over the rainbow.
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Tickets are on sale now, or AMAZINGLY, if you attend It Is Still 1985 on any Saturday at Green Door Store between now and the screening you can claim tickets for you and your friends totally FREE! Just ask on entry. For more info on their weekly Saturday events visit itisstill1985.com


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